Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Wrath of the Lich King has sold more than 2.8 million copies in the first 24 hrs of its release breaking the previous record of 2.4 million copies which was also held by Blizzard when The Burning Crusade, the first World of Warcraft expansion was released.

“After a single day of availability, Wrath of the Lich King is already the bestselling PC game of 2008 at GameStop and ranks as one of our top-selling products so far this year,” said Bob McKenzie, GameStop’s senior vice president of merchandising. “In keeping with the tradition established by their previous releases, Blizzard Entertainment has again created a product that not only reflects their high standards of quality but is clearly an instant hit with gamers around the country.”

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The Inquirer is reporting that a 15-year-old Swedish boy collapsed due to sleep deprivation and lack of food after he stayed awake for 24 hrs while exploring the new content in World of Warcraft’s latest expansion Wrath of the Lich King.

The Kvällsposten newspaper in Sweden said that doctors examining the boy said that his bodily systems had been disrupted by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food and the prolonged period of concentration playing the game.

He is expected to make a full recovery but his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son is allowed to play computer games.

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Corsair Labs today released a document outlining the effects of 6GB of memory vs 3GB of memory on the new Intel i7 based triple channel memory systems. Although the document states that 3GB of memory is sufficient to run any modern games currently on the market, there is a significant increase in frame rates when 6GBs are used as well as a decreased loading time for these games. Take World in Conflict for example, the minimum frame rate rose by 50% when the system memory was increased to 6GB from 3GB. In Crysis Warhead the increase in frame rate was 3x from 3GB to 6GB.

You can view the complete pdf from Corsair Labs.

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Users of MythTV, the popular free open source media center alternative will be pleased to see major improvements in the user interface in the upcoming version release (version .22). The new interface will offer many new features to MythTV, including animation, better interactivity, and faster and easier development for themes and developers alike.

Read more about the new features in the up coming MythTV release here.

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As many of you probably already know, Windows 7 build 6801 was made available to a developer conference a couple weeks back and was quickly leaked to torrents sites all over the net. Now if you are one of the many people to download and install this build, you may have realized that many of the features displayed in the screen shots and videos of the latest builds do not appear in build 6801, most noticeably the new Windows task bar as well as the new kernel, this is because Microsoft has hidden these unfinished features in this release.

While you will be stuck with the Vista kernel in build 6801, Rafael Rivera has recently released a small tool that will unlock some of the hidden features that are seen in the latest builds.

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